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shoot out at the OK corral

June 20, 2012

*Warning- If the sight of little boys playing cowboy with fake orange rifles makes you squeamish you might want to skip this post...

I've been having fun playing around with PicMonkey's easy to use format for editing pictures. Last week I used a couple of textures on my lavender pictures and over the weekend my grandson and I edited a few of his favorite photos with their overlays and borders feature..

Look at that concentration...﻿

I know you can't tell but if you look closely at the above picture, that's Chuck Connors of The Rifleman on the TV in the background. You can just see the butt of his gun from the opening credits.

My husband has the series on DVD and he and my grandson love to watch Lucas McCain fight off evil villains.﻿

I never realized the lessons he taught his son Mark each week. He really was a great father with a good solid moral compass. Where are those dad's on TV now?

I don't know if there is a future in it...but the little guy sure has a talent for playing dead. When he's been shot there ain't nothing distracting him. If you lift his arm or leg it just falls back to the floor like a wet noodle. The only thing that will get him to move is if you try and take his rifle or mess with his hat!

This is one tough hombre. Even in his hand me down cowboy boots that are two sizes too big.

I wouldn't want to mess with this face. Would you? He takes his job very seriously.﻿

This was a lot of fun. If you haven't tried PicMonkey yet, you should. I have found it easy to use and I am not a whiz on the computer and it's free. It resizes photos quickly and the basics are user friendly. There is even a collage feature now, too. The only complaint (and it may be just my ignorance) is the add text feature is limited.

Now go have some fun editing your pictures!

xo, Patty

This is just my humble, unauthorized opinion of a product that I am in no way compensated to talk about...

I bet you sleep well at night knowing you live with the Rifleman! What a cutie he is. Love the he plays like kids (us) used to play when we were little. Not in front of the computer or TV with some "organized" game or something. Good stuff!

He is too cute! The black and white picture looks just like one that my husband has of himself when he was around 5 (circa 1960 or so).

I about come to tears when I compare the shows of when I was growing up and a teen (like the Rifleman, Star Trek, The Waltons, and more) to the "reality" tv drivel and worse on today! At least back then the only worry would be if a show was of bad quality (writing, acting, etc), of which I'm sure there were some, not whether a show would be BAD (language, senseless violence and gruesomeness, inappropriate sexuality, etc).

What an adorable cowboy you've got... (don't tell himI said that!) I am sure he would rather be frightening!I teach preschool and we have Cowboy Week where theyput on bandanas and cowboy hats we take their ''mean' faces and make wanted posters complete with outlaw names such as "paci snatching Payton" so fun !